Tijelo i identitet u stvaralaštvu Senke Marić / Body and Identity in the Works of Senka Marić

Abstract

Senka Marić, in her book of poetry Do smrti naredne and in her novel Kintsugi tijela, focuses on the body, i.e. the analysis and interpretation of changes in the body caused by illness. The aim of this paper is to confirm the assumption that the body can condition identity and show how this is achieved in the book of poetry Do smrti naredne and the novel Kintsugi tijela, works which best show what kind of change in the body and then female identity we are talking about. These works tell a story about the changes that take place in a woman and the manner that they manifest in the world around her. The changes in the body condition all other “life roles” of a woman and it is the best indicator of (self-)identification. Special attention in the paper is paid to the way the illness affects the body, to what a woman (before and after) is. The body itself is a part of identity and it often physically reflects all the experiences and all the situations that we are exposed to are often visibly manifested on the body, as well as the pain that is impossible to hide and (or) control.